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Free State family awaits dad’s resurrection
More articles on this topic: David FrancisPaul Meintjies (76) of Hertzogville, in the Free State, has yet to arise from the dead as was predicted by a prophet from Durban. David Francis, the prophet, believes that Meintjies was supposed to have risen yesterday. The family has been given until today to keep the corpse in the mortuary.
Placard waving school children this morning took the day off and kept a noisy vigil in front of the mortuary, anticipating Meintjies’s rise.
Meintjies died in July after having suffered a stroke earlier. Francis prophesied that Meintjies will arise from the dead and should not be buried. Since then his body has been kept in the mortuary at a temperature of zero degrees Celsius.
It has been said a man from Cape Town, who visited Hertzogville over the weekend, claimed that he resurrected Meintjies, but nobody was available to open the door of the mortuary and he subsequently died again from the cold. Oblivious of the commotion around his death, Oom Paul as he was known, still lies under a white plastic sheet in the same position as the day he died - costing the family R250 a day, already R9 000, which the prophet allegedly promised to pay. However, from tomorrow, the cost will rise steeply.
Body to be removed today
Nico Foulds, the mortuary boss, had an agreement with the family that the body would be removed today. He says this thing should end, as it has been going on for long. A sentiment shared by many locals.
There is still no activity at the Meintjies residence in the main street of Hertzogville, except for Sam watering the garden and Sophie sweeping the back porch.
An SABC reporter phoned the Meinjties house and Pieter, the deceased’s son, answered the phone, saying: “I find it incomprehensible that the media cannot understand that there could be no possibility of an interview before my dad’s resurrection.”
The family is adamant that Meintjies will live again. When that will happen is up to God, Pieter told me. He said he knows they have been given till today, but the Lord’s ways are unknown.
Meanwhile, oom Faan Malherbe believes that the deceased would have been upset by what is happening. Malherbe and Meintjies were life-long friends.
The undertaker has given the Meintjies-family until five o’clock this afternoon to decide what has to be done with the body. A local priest has said it was “highly unlikely that Meintjies would be resurrected.”
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